Who I Was Born To Be

This is my current favorite song, beautifully sung by Susan Boyle.

Ms Boyle has a voice that is angelic and so uplifting.

The song is really meaningful as it represents the story of Ms Boyle and who she is born to be.

How is it that she suddenly burst into our collective consciousness and grab our attention so fast and so easily?

Well, Susan Boyle has always have the talent to sing like an angel. However, the timing was not right for her to present her talent to the world until last year, when she appeared on the X-Factor talent show.

Think about this for a moment. If she had started her singing career when she was younger, she may not have made the impact that she did.

The Universe has to prepare the grounds for her to manifest her talents that she can share with the world and uplift our spirits during this troubling times.

If there were no YouTube, I doubt that she would have made such a world-wide impact. Her performance on X-Factor was shown on YouTube and there were hundreds of millions of viewing of her raw performance, singing "I Dreamed A Dream" from the Broadway show "Les Miserables". So her talent was exposed to the widest audience possible in the easiest way due to the existence of YouTube.

If Susan Boyle had started her singing career earlier, there would not have been a show like X-Factor that served as a platform for her to sing her songs to a huge audience. She would not have gotten the endorsement of Simon Cowell, giving her instance validity and celebrity status.

So, the Universe has the make sure that all the elements were in place before Susan Boyle could be launched into our collective consciousness at the critical time when we dearly need some inspiration.

The past 3 years have been brutal to many of us who had suffered due to the Great Financial Crisis. Morale is down with lots of people losing their jobs, their life savings and their dreams. In such a dark time, we all need some sunshine, some hope of better days ahead.

And the Universe deliver Susan Boyle to us, for her to share with the world her spectacular talent. Her soaring vocals and beautiful soul give all of us the inspiration, the hope and the energy to believe that tomorrow will be a better day.

Why is it that many talented people is presented to the collective consciousness just when we need them at the most critical point?

Why was Elvis Presley so famous just after the WW II when we need hope? Is it any surprise that we have the divas of the 80s and 90s with all their individual, beautiful voices?

Why did the Google founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, come together so appropriately at the perfect timing when the Internet world needs a good search engine?

Would our world have been very much different if there were no Bill Gates or Steve Jobs was born 20 years later? Can you imagine if there were no Google, Microsoft or Apple in your lives?

Why did Mylie Cyrus become such a big success at such a young age with Hannah Montana? It is because the Universe knows that she can serve as an inspiration to the many young people like her, that it is possible to follow your dreams.

So too is Susan Boyle serving as an inspiration to all of us. An inspiration that even when you are in your forties, it is still possible for all your dreams to come true.

So, please do not feel discourage that you have talents that are not recognized. Perhaps, the timing is not right yet and the Universe needs to prepare the sweet ground for you to be successful.

Therefore, do not give up your dreams. Continue dreaming and doing the things that you love. Your talents will be valued when the time is right.

Just believe who you are born to be...

The Dream Poem

Life is a dream
Everything is like a dream
What can be experienced is but a dream
Dream is even more so a dream

Closing our eyes is a dream
Opening our eyes is also a dream
Although dreams can be long or brief
They are dreams no less

Creating various karma in dream
Will similarly experience karmic outcomes in the dream
For the enjoyment of a moment
Leads to suffering of immeasurable eons

We are all the same in the dream
No distinction in wisdom or status
The mind rises and dream arises
The mind ceases and dream ceases

Recognizing dream as dream
The realization awakens us from the dream
Both the dreamer and dream cease
The clear mind is not a dream


The above poem was found engraved on the wall of the Zhulin Monastery in Mount Wutai. It was written by Master Danxu when he was about 82 years old.

It states that life is all a dream and all of us live in the dream thinking it is the real reality.

As life is a dream, you can change how the dream unfolds. Therefore, no circumstances is unchangeable if you have the strong desire and intention to change for the better.

Only the truly wise person, who has cultivated and understand the mysteries of life, will become enlightened and awake to see the truth about this dream that is life...

Do Not Believe...

Do not believe of what you have heard.
Do not believe in the traditions
because they have been passed down for many generations.
Do not believe in anything
because it is rumored and spoken by many.
Do not believe merely
because a written statement of some old sage is produced.
Do not believe in conjectures.
Do not believe in that as truth
to which you have become attached by habit.
Do not believe merely in the authority of your teachers and elders.
After observation and analysis,
when it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and gain of one and all,
Then accept it and live up to it.

- The Buddha


The above discourse was given by Sakyamuni Buddha when he was asked by one of his disciples, Ananda, on how to identify His true teachings from the fake teachings done by other teachers.

Since the Buddha had traveled all over India, given numerous discourses to uncountable number of people and disciples, Ananda was concerned that there may be lay people who will be misled by so-called teachers proclaiming the Buddha's teachings.

What the Buddha meant was that even though disciples may hear the Buddhist Sutra and teachings from the Buddha himeself, however, the disciple should not just accept it without questions.

The disciples should evaluate from his own experiences, understand from his values and internalize the wisdom before deciding to accept the teachings to be the truth.

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“A Wish for You in 2010

May peace break into your home and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet for $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips. May happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy. May the problems you had forget your home address!

Happy New Year!!”

May You Be Blessed...

As you start a new year, 2010, may you be blessed with an abundant of blessings.

Watch the following 3-minute video to realize all your blessings : -


http://www.blessyoumovie.com/

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!!

May 2010 bring a lot of abundance of blessings of good health, wealth, prosperity and happiness to everyone in every part of the world.

May we all treat each of our fellow-men with a lot more compassion, respect and honesty.

May we extend our hands in friendship to the many people that we come across.

Let 2010 be the start of a whole movement of living in the Now, living compassionately and living with full awareness of our intentions.